Overview

Beginning this week, you will complete a Math Lesson each week. These lessons will help you refine your Math and reasoning skills. You will also have a chance to practice and review your Math skills each week in the Math Exercises.

This week’s Math Lesson focuses on the basics of addition and subtraction including negative numbers. If you are comfortable with these concepts, then this lesson will serve as a quick review for you. If you are not comfortable with these concepts, it is important that you take the time to learn them as thoroughly as you can. Addition and subtraction is one of the most applicable and fundamental concepts in math. All other lessons will use these concepts in some way.

Before we get into the math instruction and practice, please complete the following Excel activity to be sure you are set up and familiar enough with Excel to use it in upcoming course activities.

Excel Exercise

Throughout this course, you will be completing assignments using Microsoft Excel. Before beginning your Math Lesson, take some time to learn or improve on your Excel skills. Complete the following activity:

Excel Exercise

Math Instruction and Practice

This math lesson is broken into several mini-lessons, each containing a lot of material. Be sure to start early in the week in case you need extra time to study and practice. To save you time and quickly discover which concepts you need more help with, you may first take the math exercises quiz. If you choose a wrong answer on any quiz question, you will receive feedback linking to lessons you can study to improve your skills in that area. You may take these quizzes as many times as you like until the due date in order to improve your score.

All the mini-lessons to help you improve your skills in this week's Math concepts are linked below, located in the PathwayConnect Resource Center. If you still need help after going through the available materials, there are suggestions at the bottom of each lesson page to get more help.

Introduction to Addition and Subtraction

Whole Numbers, Integers, and Real Numbers
Introduction to Positive and Negative Numbers
Introduction to Place Values
Introduction to Addition
Introduction to Subtraction
Subtracting From a Negative Number
What Does it Mean to Subtract a Negative Number?
Addition and Subtraction with Positive and Negative Numbers

Once you are confident with the Math concepts on this page, you may mark it complete and continue with the week's activities.